Thanks for the replies. Have been away for a few days but in that time have made the purchase.
I have gone for an ACER Aspire 3023WLMI and upgraded the memory. Seems to do every thing I want of it and all in budget to. I was Surprised to see it had ATII graphics instead of the shared MB ram.
Now if only I could gt my WiFi connection sorted out. Its no joke, I can get everything ok in unsecured mode but the moment I put it into WPA I cant seem to get the laptop and router to agree on security settings.
Will give it a couple of days, be prepared for a Help I cant get my laptop connected to my WLan thread
Cheers
FTF